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Meredith Herald Volume XV, Issue 3 We attract bright, talented, ambitious students. Naturally we’re a women’s college. September 9,1998 Park brings thousands On the inside: O Meet the Chief of Police and see what his goals are for i\m year. Page 2 □ Where did MCTV go? Find out when the campus cable stations will be back. Page 3 campus paper receives criticism for its handling of a sexual harassment suit. Page 6 Meredith Herald at Meredith Colley 5800 Hillsborough St Raleigh. NC 27607 (919) 760-2824 FAX (919) 760-2869 Email: caitera@meredith.edu Pops in the □ WRAL hosts its annual music event to celebrate summer’s end. AUSON VALENTI Staff ftepofier Over 40,000 people crowded tlie Meredith lawn Sunday evening for what has become Raleigh's Labor Day tradition. Pops in the Parle is an annual event sponsored by the commu nity to celebrate the lasl day of summer. The North Carolina Sympho ny, conducted by Gertiardt Zim merman and William Henry Curry, performed whilevocalists Suzanne Ishee and Mark Hardy sang. Concert-goers spread their blankets on (he grass and settled in underneath the hazy sun. Despite the heat, children ran through the maze of blankets and buckets of chicken to try and catch Frisbees with their greasy hands. The program included popular selections from George Gersh- Meredith on □ Windows ‘95 and Office ‘97 are being installed in most labs. Kelu fish staff Reporter Technological advances are on the rise at Meredith, but these advances are just reinforcing Meredith’s reputation as an envi ronment of exploration and advancement. Until this year, the campus Intranet was accessible only on campus and with the use of a password, but, due to the grow ing demands of wanting “easy access," the Intranet is now available for anyone to use. Head of Technology Services Ruth Balia explained that the change was made for the large number of commuter students living off campus and for the convenience of the faculty and staff. Because of its new avail ability. many of the faculty have posted items on the faculty pages; lecture notes, syllabi and articles for student use. win and Irving Berlin. The songs were crowd favwites as many people hummed along with the familiar tunes. Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “Let’s Do It” brought smiles to many faces as did Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. In addition to the music, vari ous organizations had tents set up around the crowd. Informa tion was available on all kinds of There are three computer labs on campus for students to use, located in Joyner. Harris and Ledford. Students may use these labs during their posted hours, when a class is not scheduled. An additional lab containing sixteen computers will be available by mid-semester in the library. These computers will always be available to students after 5 p.m. daily and on weekends. The labs in Harris and Joyner have been upgraded to Windows ‘95 and Office ‘97, and Ledford will soon be as well. Some have raised questions about upgrading to Windows 98, but Balia explained, "Since Win dows 98 is a new operating sys tem, we are unsure of its stabili ty, and since there is not a big change from Windows 95 we are currently planning on using this system in all our labs.” Meredith provides each stu dent who is taking three or more credit hours with a free e-mail account. Classes are offered throughout the year to explain e- community activities and ser vices. As the sun began to set, fami lies cuddled together and rel ished the idea of a work-free Monday. The symphony ended the program with the Overture solenelle of 1812 and The Stars and Stripes Forever. The final selections were accompanied by a large and impressive fireworks display. mail, which students are encour aged to use because faculty and staff feel that it’s one of the easi est and quickest ways to commu nicate. There are policies about the use of e-mail accounts that are strictly enforced. Students are asked not to send or forward chain letters because this can easily cause the system to crash. A change that the Meredith community may be seeing in the spring is a new campus-wide e- mail program. The school was also able to purchase a data pro jector that allows the screen of a laptop to be projected to a larger screen. The technology depart ment hopes that this machine will encourage the use of differ ent technology in the classroom. This summer, ten members of Meredith’s faculty went through a week-long training session sponsored by the Dupont Fellow ship. There they attended infor mation sessions about using var ious ways to incorporate technol ogy in the classroom. Edible Suggestions on a roll By Tory Hoke Features EOtor Any patron of Belk Dining Hall has noticed the “Edible Sug gestions” box and board posted on the Faircloth side of the din ing area. The box has been accu mulating suggestions for dining hall improvement from the Meredith community since the beginning of the fall semester, and the board provides Campus Dining Manager Thad O’Briant with a medium of response. The new setup has inspired a signifi cant increase in campus input. The suggestions “run the gamut,” said O’Briant. “We get probably five to 10 a day now. Before, we were getting 10 a week.” O’Briant, with Assistant Man ager Kathleen Reynolds. Cater ing Manager Kathy Jones, and Shift Managers Ben Pritchard and Donna Owens, helms the staggering business of serving 2500 meals a day with a staff of about 45 full and part time employees and 12 student work ers. By estimates that Jones cate gorizes as “low," that business comes to about 150 lb. of lettuce. 50 lb, of turkey. 1000 pieces of dessert. 15 gallons of soft-serve ice cream, 30 gallons of milk. 500 pieces of fresh fruit, 150 chickens, and 60 lb. of spaghetti noodles. Dining Services pro vides a rotating field of foods to satisfy both the appetites and the nutritional needs of the campus. “At dinner, you’ll have at least three entrees, a starch—like potatoes, rice, or pasta—and at least three vegetables, at least one of those leafy green." O’Bri ant said. Dining Services uses the Edi ble Suggestions to enhance and complement the menu. O’Briant has already implemented more than a few changes in response to individual suggestions. “We’ve added Grape Nuts^*^,” noted O’Briant. “We have gra nola again—that was asked for. Tonight we have fried vegetable sticks. We've changed the tables around because some students See EDIBLE page 4 The crowd relaxed while listening to the sounds of the North Carolina Symphony over th® holiday. photo bv ausoh floop technology’s cutting edge
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